. >> the same way that matt damon teamed up with ben affleck in 1997 for goodwill hunting now he has teamed up with jim from the office to write the screenplay and co-star in their new movie promised land the story of fracking injecting water deep into the earth to extract natural gas he plays a slip trap for a big money energy co. who was waving money in front of the faces of an economically depressed town for rights to exploit their land and the environmental damage that can be caused by fracking launching a grass-roots battle against the company pitting the two men against each other politically and also for the attention of the preschool teacher in town. it was incredibly similar to writing with ben affleck the major difference is a lot of the time my four kids are jumping around. we were moonlighting i was on the show he was shooting a movie in california so i showed up to his house and we worked straight through dinner and did the same thing sunday but you are right i don't know how we got as much work done as we did because putting on the little mermaid 17 times and making a l